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It’s not easy to meet him and talk to Father Adrian Făgeţeanu. You must first get to the Lainici Monastery on the narrow and sloping valley of Jiu. Then, after a few hours of rest, you start from morning to sihastria, where the father suddenly withdrew, unexpectedly, without further explanation. Sick and almost blind, he …

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He was the outlaw in youth, a basic man of Tudor Vladimirescu, he founded the first Romanian newspaper and created the tricolor flag, invented the tank crate, a member of the Romanian Academy of 1870, the founder of the national colleges in Bucharest and Craiova, organized the Romanian national education and was the first Romanian …

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In 1933, photographic album “Romania” appeared in Leipzig, under the signature of photographer Kurt Hielscher, a fascinating album that would capture the atmosphere of the interwar years as few such albums did. Hielscher reported in a “Foreword” how he came to this album: “In 1931, I was invited by the Romanian Government to travel as …

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“Converting” the Orthodox in Transilvania to Greek Catholic Church In the late seventeenth century Habsburg Empire “converted” Orthodox Romanians in Transylvania to Greek Catholicism. The situation of Transylvanian Romanians was very heavy, according to “diploma” issued in Vienna by Leopold I, in 1691, which stipulated that only Hungarians, Saxons and Szeklers were the three “nations” …

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Doctor Galina Răduleanu is the daughter of Father Boris Răduleanu, confessor of the Communist prisons, and he has also been part of years of imprisonment. He shares some thoughts about the new ideological offensive to which our world is exposed. The word of a doctor is all the more important because, through the psychiatric profession …

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Cyprian was a philosopher and renowned sorcerer originating from Carthage who lived in Antioch of Pisidia during the reign of Decius (249-251 AD). Springing from impious parents, in his very childhood he was dedicated by them to the service of the pagan god Apollo. At the age of seven he was given over to magicians …

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